save us from socialised medicine

Among its other magical qualities, the free market eliminates the need for travel — you can find world class deprivation in the midst of the richest society the world has ever known. Via Balloon Juice, we learn of a US scheme called the Remote Area Medical program. It was originally designed to provide basic medical care to villages in the Amazon. Today, however, more than half of its resources go to serving Americans within America.

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Jeff Sparrow is a writer, broadcaster and editor. His recent books include Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right and No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson.

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The market can work miracles
Against our very wishes
Turn food for 50,000
Into paltry loaves and fishes
Turn the finest wine to water
Make surgical the foulest slaughter
So cheer up now and sell your daughter
History has ended